While the media in Burma is characterized by strict control, censorship and a general lack of freedom, the Burmese exile media is developing rapidly. The news reports from these media organizations reach millions of people inside Burma as well as Burmese living in exile.
This thesis presents the operations of a modern exile media organisation, the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). Through qualitative interviews it explores the development and current state of this media organization, and the measures and initiatives DVB employs in order to establish and maintain professional integrity. The theoretical foundation of the concept «professional» is explored and discussed in relation to studying the challenges that arise as external and internal forces pressure DVB to adhere to this concept, which is frequently invoked in, and for, a context quite unlike the one in which DVB is operating.